Hong Kong leader CY Leung gets abuse from emotional forum teenager hurling obscenity
Summit organised by the government’s Commission on Youth sees young man lose his cool with chief executive
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying was publicly abused by a teenager using the “f” word during a sharing session with young people on Saturday.
The young man, surnamed Chan, was among hundreds of secondary school and university students invited to the annual Youth Summit organised by the government’s Commission on Youth.
During the one-hour forum, more than a dozen youngsters were given the chance to ask Leung questions. When Chan was picked by the moderator, he took the opportunity to accuse Leung’s administration of cracking down on young people’s participation in social movements such as the Occupy demonstrations and protests against cross-border parallel traders.
“During the Occupy Central movement, how come the government used tear gas on a group of bare-handed teenagers?” he said.
Chan said such a move went against calls by the government for teenagers to participate more in social affairs.
At the end of his question section, Chan suddenly became emotional.
